Anno 4° Georgii Regis.
DIE Mercurii, 9 Octobris.
Domini tam Spirituales quam Temporales præsentes
fuerunt:
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Arch. Cant.
Epus. London.
Epus. Lincoln. |
Ds. Cowper, Cancellarius.
Dux Newcastle, Camerarius.
Dux Bucks & Normanby.
Dux Roxburgh.
Comes Sunderland.
Comes Clarendon.
Comes Berkeley.
Comes Sutherland.
Viscount Stanhope. |
PRAYERS
The Lord Chancellor acquainted the House, "That
His Majesty had been pleased to cause a Commission
to be issued under the Great Seal, for the further
proroguing this Parliament."
The House was adjourned during Pleasure.
The House was resumed.
Then Six of the Lords Commissioners (in their Robes)
being seated on a Form placed between the Throne
and the Woolsack; the Lord Chancellor in the Middle; and the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury and Earl
of Berkeley on his Right Hand; and the Lord Chamberlain, Earl of Sunderland, and Lord Viscount Stanhope, on his Left; commanded the Gentleman Usher of
the Black Rod to let the Commons know, "The Lords
Commissioners desire their Attendance in this House,
to hear His Majesty's Commission read."
Who being come, with their Speaker; the Commission was read, by the Clerk, as follows:
Commission for proroguing the Parliament.
"GEORGIUS R.
Georgius, Dei Gratia, Mag. Britan. Franc. &
Hib'niæ Rex, Fidei Defensor, &c. Præcharissimo
Filio & perquam Fideli Consiliario Nostro Georgio
Principi Walliæ, Reverendissimo in Christo Patri &
Fideli Consiliario Nostro Will'o Archiepiscopo Cantuar.
totius Angl. Primati & Metropolitano, Prædilecto &
Fideli Consiliario Nostro Will'o Domino Cowper Cancellario Nostro Mag. Britan. Charissimis Consanguineis & Consiliariis Nostris Evelyn Duci Kingston Custodi Privati Sigilli Nostri, Hen'co Duci Kent Senescallo
Hospitii Nostri, Tho. Holles Duci Newcastle Camerario Hospitii Nostri, Garolo Duci Bolton, Joh'i Duci
Marlborough Capitaneo Generali Copiarum Nostrarum,
Joh'i Duci Roxburgh Uni Primariorum Secretariorum
Nostrorum, Carolo Comiti Sunderland Primario Secretario Nostro, Jacobo Comiti Berkeley, Jacobo Vicecomiti Stanhope, & Prædilecto & Fideli Consiliario
Nostro Tho. Domino Parker Capitali Justiciario Nostro ad Placita coram Nobis tenend. assign. Salutem.
Cum nuper, pro quibusdam arduis & urgentibus Negotiis, Nos, Statum & Defensionem Regni Nostri
Mag. Britan. & Ecclesiæ concernentibus, præsens hoc
Parliamentum Nostrum apud Civitatem Nostram Westm.
Decimo Septimo Die Martii, Anno Regni Nostri
Primo, inchoari & teneri ordinaverimus; quo Die idem
Parliamentum Nostrum inchoatum & tentum fuerat;
& abinde, per separalia Adjournamenta, usque ad et in
Vicesimum Sextum Diem Junii, Anno Regni Nostri Secundo, adjournatum & continuatum fuerat; & abinde,
per separal. Prorogationes, Adjournamenta, & Continuationes, ad et in Diem Mercurii, Nonum Diem hujus instantis Octobris, prorogatum, adjournatum, &
continuatum fuerat, apud Civitatem Nostram Westm.
prædictam, ibidem tunc tenendum & prosequendum:
Sciatis tamen, quod, certis urgentibus Causis & Considerationibus Nos specialiter moventibus, idem Parliamentum Nostrum ulterius prorogandum duximus.
De Fidelitate igitur, Prudentia, & Circumspectionibus
vestris plurimum confidentes, de Avisamento & Assensu Concilii Nostri, assignavimus vos Commissionarios Nostros; dantes vobis, & aliquibus Tribus vel
pluribus vestrum, Tenore Præsentium, plenam Potestatem & Auctoritatem, hoc instante Die Mercurii,
ad præsens Parliamentum Nostrum, Nomine Nostro,
usque ad et in Diem Jovis, Vicesimum Primum Diem
Novembris nunc prox. sequen. apud prædictam Civitatem Nostram Westm. ulterius prorogandum & continuandum, ibidemque tunc tenendum & prosequendum; et ideo vobis mandamus, quod circa Præmissa
diligenter intendatis, ac ea in Forma prædicta effectualiter expleatis. Damus autem universis & singulis
Archiepiscopis, Ducibus, Marchionibus, Comitibus,
Vicecomitibus, Episcopis, Baronibus, Militibus, Civibus, Burgensibus, & Commissionariis pro Comitatibus et Burgis, ac omnibus aliis quorum interest ad
dictum Parliamentum Nostrum conventuris, Tenore
Præsentium, firmiter in Mandatis, quod vobis, in Præmissis faciendis, agendis, & exequendis, pareant, obediant, & intendant, prout decet. In cujus Rei Testimonium, has Literas Nostras fieri fecimus Patentes.
Teste Meipso, apud Westm. Nono Die Octobris,
Anno Regni Nostri Quarto.
"Per ipsum Regem, propria Manu signat.
"Wrighte."
Die Veneris, 22 Nov. 1717, examined by us,
Clarendon.
De Lawarr.
Coningesby.
Torrington.
Then the Lord Chancellor said,
Parliament prorogued.
My Lords, and Gentlemen,
By virtue of His Majesty's Commission now read,
and to us and others directed, we do, in His Majesty's
Name, and by His Royal Authority, prorogue this
present Parliament to Thursday the One and Twentieth
Day of November next, to be then here held: And
this Parliament is accordingly prorogued to Thursday the One and Twentieth Day of November next."